It is overly difficult ya!
But i think it's worth it for what i wanna do.
Obviously i try to take short-cuts when i feel it won't go too far from what i had in mind so i don't have to spend my whole life on this project hah
In fact I've done some change of plans and instead 5 chapters a book (or 5 episodes a season ?) I've decided to cut a lot of fluff and shorten it to 4 of them.
But my goal isn't simply to tell the story i made, but push myself and see what i can do if i aim to do something great, something i want to be proud of for my whole life!
However i don't think that "having more sprites" automatically makes a VN better, it's just that in this specific case i feel it's more than necessary since i don't plan on adding narration, and i also don't want to write too much of the characters inner thoughts too.
Basically instead of a "visual NOVEL" i wanna do a "VISUAL novel"!
My standard for this is: If you can figure out, even if only vaguely, what is happening without reading any text on screen, then i succeeded.
(Obviously due to the nature of some scene being focused on the content of a discussion instead of an action in the world, some scenes will have much more limited sprites variety and won't be held to that standard.)
Other than that, thanks for the kind words, happy to hear it piqued you're interest ^w^